What happens to a collection after you sell it to us
Stage by stage: written offer from sold comps, shipping, check-in against photos, payment after review, sorting and grading, and where our margin comes from.
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Stage by stage: written offer from sold comps, shipping, check-in against photos, payment after review, sorting and grading, and where our margin comes from.
A raw card is worth what identical ungraded copies sold for. How to read eBay sold comps, which condition flaws move the number, and when raw beats grading.
PSA Regular is $79.99 a card, CGC Economy is $20, and Beckett's two cheapest tiers are sold out. Add postage both ways and supplies and four cards through PSA works out at roughly $88 each.
A calm, practical order of operations for someone who has just inherited Pokémon cards and has no interest in the hobby: what not to throw away, what actually carries the value, and the two ways families end up underpaid.
The first hour matters more than the next ten. Photograph the box before you touch it, clean nothing, ignore which cards look coolest, and split pre-2000 from everything else.
Three different cards share the name. One is worth about $500 raw, one about $1,000, one about $5,500 — and telling them apart takes ten seconds.